Solus Rex is a
monologue performed and directed by Remko Van Damme. The piece is
conceived as a dialoge between image, music and text. It is based on
biographic material of Alexander Aljechin. As a basis for the
opening music for the piece the last chess game played by this
legendary chess player is used. The coordinates of the moves in
this historic game are mapped to frequencies for sinewaves. The
sinewaves glide from one frequency to the next, creating a 2-voice
polyphonic Theremin-esque invention. Later in the piece, the same
material is transcribed to electric guitar parts. scattered over
unpredictable timedivisions in hybrid electronic-instrumental
passages. Following the increasingly confused mind of the
protagonist, the music desintegrates as the piece evolves.